After two decade long wars 65 percent of Americans don’t think the US should provide military assistance to the Ukraine

We have another reminder that there is a huge gap between regular Americans and those inside the beltway when it comes to foreign policy issues.

While large parts of the Washington establishment have been obsessed with what to do about the situation in the Ukraine, most Americans don’t think we have a responsibility to act in a country on the other side of the planet with no clear American interests at stake.

According to a new CBS news poll, 61 percent don’t think the United States has a responsibility to do something about Crimea. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and Independents all feel this way.

Similarly, 65 percent don’t think the United States should provide military assistance to the Ukraine while just 26 percent think we should.

After two decade long wars the country has little appetite for more involvement in foreign disputes.

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“… most Americans don’t think we have a responsibility to act in a country on the other side of the planet with no clear American interests at stake.”

Unfortunately, the Plundering Class doesn’t give a damn what most Americans think because it believes that the entire planet is an American interest, meaning the obsession of the Plundering Class to dominate and control every inch of the planet, regardless of the destruction and death which result.

The Empire will do what the Empire wants, sanity and morality be damned. Only the collapse of the Empire will stop the sociopathic thugs of the Plundering Class.

“We have another reminder that there is a huge gap between regular Americans and those inside the beltway when it comes to foreign policy issues.”

I’m sure there was a huge gap between regular Germans and those Germans who lived in Berlin or in underground bunkers, when it came to foreign policy? As I recall many of those dutiful Germans, committed suicide rather than being used by corrupt bastards looking to line their own pockets? This is why the secret police existed in Germany, to keep the malcontents in line via intimidation and force all enabled by surveillance?

Wake up America to insure we don’t get conned or “Fooled Again,” by money/power addicted whack job losers…

Thank God more people are waking up. The leadership in the country is completely out of touch with our country and the people who live here – the citizens who pay their salaries.

One billion in loan guarantees for a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map while Detroit goes bankrupt. Billions of dollars spent undermining elected governments around the world – Ukraine, Venezuela, Honduras, perhaps Thailand (not sure about that one). Notice how they always have the money for the things they care about – banks, new weapons, blowing shit up and causing death and mayhem. They can always get those kinds of things in the budget.

People can see and feel that our economy is going down the tubes. It would be nice if Obama thought of that as a National Security Emergency.

Hillary will be more of the same – actually, there is every reason to believe that she will be worse. Her speech at AIPAC the other day was truly disgusting.

As eminent philosopher Dick Cheney remarked when told that the American people largely did not support his administration’s policies: “So?”

Sure, this kind of polling brings a tear to John McCain’s eye, but it doesn’t stop the planes from flying, the ships from sailing or the boots getting on the ground. If it’s important enough to the monied interests, the poor will once again have their children seized to fight for the cause of the wealthy. Anyone remember how aggravating it was during Desert Storm I to see our troops on the ground defending Kuwait while the rich kids of Kuwait were dancing the night away in the discos of Europe?

- PPP’s newest Arizona poll finds that John McCain is unpopular with Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike and has now become the least popular Senator in the country. Only 30% of Arizonans approve of the job McCain is doing to 54% who disapprove. There isn’t much variability in his numbers by party- he’s at 35/55 with Republicans, 29/53 with Democrats, and 25/55 with independents.

McCain trails in hypothetical general election match ups with both 2012 nominee Richard Carmona (41/35) and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (42/35). He would lead though in a match up with former Governor Janet Napolitano, 44/36. This has the potential to be an interesting one in 2016.

McCain has not talked about anything else but starting wars in Ukraine and Syria for months. The GOP thinks Viet Nam depressed support for wars but Reagan brought it back a few years later.
Unlike Viet Nam the GOP started this one. Unlike Viet Nam we had a President who actually refused to send more troops to do the job plus he was given 8 years to do the job his way and even though his way included torture, firing on civilians, drones etc he still lost!
The GOP thus has responsibility for failure and no excuses about Congress not giving them enough troops materials time or tying the army’s hands with rules about torture and war crimes.
Plus the economy tanked under Bush who swore tax cuts for the rich in war time would create jobs. Obama just gets the blame…for acting like Bush on the economy.

I want out of wars and occupations and strutting on the world stage. What in hell do we have to do with Ukraine? I guess I am too old but I think of that place as Russian territory. Now that they have a few right wing parties we are supposed to welcome them into NATO and the EU and rush over there with guns and troops? Nah, not for me. Let them play the role of Finland, a buffer state with some independence from all the bullshit. But those right wing parties won’t allow that. So they may incite Russia to advance further and then the war mongers among us will point and say “See?”. No I don’t.

In addition, I think those who have struggled to understand this issue, at least from the questionable Kiev activities that resulted in a coup, believe that Putin is probably right to protect his interests and his borders from Nato aggression and NSA surveillance. Those Govt People who have been hectoring Putin the most are probably more upset that Putin gave Snowden asylum and suspect this provocation in the Ukraine is a sly way for the Empire to Strike Back.

But the problem with polling is that most people aren’t that well-informed on the issues. The polls, therefore, simply measure how effectively propaganda has shaped public opinion. Or they measure other beliefs in play that shape views toward a current event.

This poll reiterates the view that Americans are fed up with war and conflict with Foreign Powers. And probably the frustration over finding money for a tiny country while the govt turns its back again on the economic misery of its own people by pleading bankruptcy. Ukraine gets billions, Detroit, the unemployed, the foreclosed upon… nada.

I agree and I can’t pass up the opportunity to comment on our own misery in the form of unemployment. It is little understood but ANY unemployment in a country with a freely floating fiat currency like ours is simply a policy or maybe I should say lack of policy. See Obama and Cruz, even I know that.

But there are “clear American interests at stake”: Imperial hegemony; control and profit of energy resources; and justification for perpetual war. These were the same interests that were behind US violence in Vietnam, Latin America, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of the rest of the Middle East, etc.

Whether US citizens think they have a responsibility is not a factor for consideration by those that instigate war. Sixty-one percent of US citizens may not think that their country has a responsibility to do something about Crimea, but that is nothing that another month or so of TV can’t change–just like it did for all the examples above.